Alpha 14 released

[Robsoie]

@Geraldine, thanks for the welcome
robn wrote:
That's a known bug that was fixed a few days ago but didn't make the deadline for alpha 14. A workaround is to delete lines 39-47 from data/modules/TradeShips.lua.
I deleted those lines (i think that's the ones ?)
Quote:
if ship:GetEquipCount('SHIELD', 'SHIELD_GENERATOR') == 0 andEngine.rand:Number(1) - 0.1 < lawlessness thenlocal num = math.floor(math.sqrt(ship:GetEquipFree('CARGO') / 50))ship:AddEquip('SHIELD_GENERATOR', num)if ship_type:GetEquipSlotCapacity('ENERGYBOOSTER') > 0 andEngine.rand:Number(1) + 0.5 - size_factor < lawlessness thenship:AddEquip('SHIELD_ENERGY_BOOSTER')endend
And it indeed allow to launch the game without the error message and the runtime error following it.Thanks.

[robn]

Yep, that's it!

[Robsoie]

ThanksBeen flying in Hades canyon while New Hope was on the horizonI wish i had a powerfull computer enough to play at this kind of details but what's impressive with Pioneer is that even at medium details it looks really nice (and with great framerate on my old system)for comparison, same locations but level of details i use when flying and have a very nice framerate despite my intel card :That game is really wonderfull and gorgeous even at medium/high details , thank you very much for always improving it

[Guest]

robn wrote:


ElectricSkies wrote:
I'd like to build this for myself in Mac OSX. How much do the instructions in the Compile pioneer page apply to building for Mac?
I think it doesn't for the most part. See COMPILING.OSX.txt. Our OS X guy (Philbywhizz) hasn't been around much lately (also why there's no OS X build yet) so the XCode project might be slightly out of date (missing new files). If it doesn't work for you the GNU way should work.
I'm back.. and will have an OSX build tonight. Had some issues building this release as there were a few changes with the way my ObjectiveC code was working with pioneer. The GNU way should always work though (COMPILING.OSX.txt should help you there - if it doesn't let me know).Cheers,Philbywhizz.

[robn]

I finally sorted out exactly what went wrong with the original builds of alpha 14. I've done fresh builds from scratch and confirmed they work, and uploaded them. If you already grabbed the original and the patched executable and edited TradeShips.lua then there's nothing you need to do. If you do go and download the alpha 14 packages from the download page then it will all just work.Sorry for the mix up, and thanks for your patience!

[robn]

Thanks to Philbywhizz an OS X build of Alpha 14 has just been posted at http://pioneerspacesim.net/download.

[ElectricSkies]

Thanks for the OSX build, Philbywhizz. However, it quits itself immediately upon being opened. Do other OSX users have this problem?

[Guest]

ElectricSkies wrote:
Thanks for the OSX build, Philbywhizz. However, it quits itself immediately upon being opened. Do other OSX users have this problem?
That's not cool.. Are there any messages sent to the console (via the console app - located in /Applications/Utilities?)What version of OSX are you running?

[ElectricSkies]

I'm running OS 10.6.8.I tried opening it through Terminal, but there were no error messages. Terminal shows the next command prompt before Pioneer crashes, so it seems that it runs for a bit before closing.Edit: as per advice here I tried deleting ~/Library/Application Support/Pioneer, but it didn't help.

[Guest]

ElectricSkies wrote:
I tried opening it through Terminal, but there were no error messages. Terminal shows the next command prompt before Pioneer crashes, so it seems that it runs for a bit before closing.
Ok, I think I know where the issue is now - it is the way that the application is packaged with the newest lua management code (damm you luamanager and your constructors! ).I'm going to have to have a rethink on how to package up pioneer on OSX (I have an idea of a work around), and unfortunately I won't be able to test and fix it until tonight. Thanks for your patience.

[Guest]

Hello,I've re-uploaded Alpha14 for OSX up to sourceforge. - It should be in the same place, and I'm sure Rob will update the website shortly.Now that the basic build is back working again, I can start to look at some other fun stuff instead. Enjoy!